84 GEOLOGY OF OHEO. 
Coal Measures, at one or another locality in Tuscarawas county, furnish 
good building stone, and it may be said that no part of the State is better 
supplied with building materials of all kinds. The white sandstone, to 
which reference is made in a preceding paragraph, would make a very 
beautiful and durable building stone; perhaps the handsomest of any 
yet known in the county. At Mineral Point, a sandstone which lies 
between Coals No. 4 and No. 5, has been quarried to some extent, and 
shows well. About Urichsville the Mahoning sandstone, which overlies 
Coal No. 6, has also been shown to be well adapted to building purposes. 
Indeed, there is no considerable area within the county Hmits where @ 
buff or brown sandstone, similar to those last mentioned, cannot be easily 
and cheaply obtained. 
Salé—In a review of the mineral resources of Tuscarawas county, salt 
should not be omitted. It is now produced in considerable quantity from 
brine raised at several wells in the vicinity of Canal Dover. These wells 
begin at nearly the same horizon—about two hundred feet above the base 
of the Coal Measures—and are sunk to nearly the same depth (about 
nine hundred feet). The salt-water is derived apparently from the same 
strata in the Waverly group. In the Sugar Creek well,-which has a 
depth of eight hundred and ninety-four feet, the salt rock, a porous sand- 
stone, was reached at eight hundred and eighty-six feet; while in the 
Goshen well, which is nine hundred and fourteen feet deep, the salt-water 
was obtained at the depth of eight hundred and sixty-five feet. 
The strength of the brine is 10° Beaumé, 40° of the salometer, and it 
is estimated that seven barrels of water produced one barrel of salt = 280 
pounds = 54 bushels of 53 pounds each—the bushel being fifty pounds, 
but three more are packed to allow for drying. 
_ The daily production at the Sugar Creek well is said to be from sixty- 
five to seventy barrels; that of the Goshen well was about forty-five bar- 
rels at the time of my visit. The flow of water is strong in both, and 
the production might be increased. From the former well, considerable 
gas escapes which is used for heating and Hghting, and contributes 
toward the pumping. The daily comsumption of coal in addition is 
about eighteen tons. , 
The Sugar Creek well isowned and operated by Mr. J. S. Deardoff; the 
Goshen well by Messrs. Scott and Kennedy. 
Bromine.—In the process of manufacturing salt, a considerable quantity 
of bromine is produced. After the crystallization of the salt, the bitter 
water is drawn off, and evaporated to 45° Beaumé; it is then distilled in 
a special apparatus. The product from one hundred and eighty gallons 
of the bitter water (the capacity of the still) is said to be fourteen or fif- 
